Friday, June 18, 2010
Lexington Police Procedure Questioned
KENTUCKY...
The chief of the Lexington Police Department cast doubt on his department. The Lexington police chief says he doesn't think officers who found a badly beaten woman behind her home last week checked her pulse. That was just one piece of the puzzle revealed during a timeline of the response to the case of 44-year-old Umi Southworth, who later died, that was made public Thursday at a news conference. It marked the first time Chief Ronnie Bastin spoke about the June 9 incident, in which Southworth was presumed dead, yet was actually alive and did not receive medical help for more than three hours after she was found. Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn said he could not discuss the issue because the case is a pending homicide investgation.
The chief of the Lexington Police Department cast doubt on his department. The Lexington police chief says he doesn't think officers who found a badly beaten woman behind her home last week checked her pulse. That was just one piece of the puzzle revealed during a timeline of the response to the case of 44-year-old Umi Southworth, who later died, that was made public Thursday at a news conference. It marked the first time Chief Ronnie Bastin spoke about the June 9 incident, in which Southworth was presumed dead, yet was actually alive and did not receive medical help for more than three hours after she was found. Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn said he could not discuss the issue because the case is a pending homicide investgation.
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